Then too, both had reason to take precautions; discretion was important. They each had no desire to change their life substantively, just to spice it ...p a bit.While it had been full daylight when they arrived, twilight had come and gone as they made conversation over dinner. Unaccountably, they had hit it off very well; she a homemaker in what many years ago had become a marriage of convenience, he cast adrift a couple years back from an LTR after he'd been downsized, with his essoh deciding. ”A light came on when he opened a door on the other side of the vehicle. Sta-ie-che gasped as she realized that he could now clearly see her green skin and hair. She waited fearfully for his reaction, but instead he laughed and said, “Neat costume.” Then he added, “I guess you and I are definitely headed for the same place.”Sta-ie-che had no idea what he meant, but understood with relief that he thought that she was disguised in some way for a party. She decided that it would probably be safer. If your tastes are as broad as mine, “one or two” is more like ten or twenty, and so it was in that place. Women of all shapes and sizes, aged from eighteen to sixty-something.The one who made the biggest impression on me was one of the managers, Jennifer. She was medium height, medium build, with long straight brown hair parted on the side and good-size breasts. She was quite pretty in an unspectacular way and had a personality to match. She was serious, businesslike and not much fun. I grew. As I thought about these, I realised they were love bites. She had cheated on me, how could she? I lay in bed feeling utterly rejected, dejected, cheated, and very wretched. Sleep was a blessed relief.It was almost a relief to get back to the predictability and sanity of work.CHAPTER 6I was genuinely glad to be back at work, among friends who I could trust, a clear demarcation of peers, subordinates and bosses. And of course women who didn't really fall into any of those categories, they were.